CHOWN, Marcus

CHOWN, Marcus
(1959-)
   UK writer, currently reviews editor for New Scientist, whose sf novels, both in collaboration with John GRIBBIN, are Double Planet (1988), a competent HARD-SF tale about a conflict of political interests over a comet which may or may not be about to strike the Earth, and its remote sequel, Reunion (1991), set 1000 years later, in which the lunar population has come under the influence of a cult claiming to hold the secret of how to replenish the MOON's atmosphere: the book is the story of a woman's fight against this church.
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   Other works: Stars and Planets (1987), a children's book on astronomy.

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